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I got the chance last week, to curate a small  cine-club session organized by Danielle Willems (see her essay for the Funambulist) who was kind enough to ask me so. I chose two movies that I was not necessarily associating but whose connection will have to be made in an upcoming article about what Deleuze...

picture: The Void by R&Sie(n) 2005 In 2009, the South African film District 9 popularized a type of cinema that is interesting to question and put in relation with architecture: the docu-fiction. In order to please a broader audience, District 9  unfortunately gave up the technique in the middle of the narrative to come back...

Almost exactly 140 years ago, in March 1871, Paris was declaring its independence from defeated Napoleon III’s France and creating, for three months, what Karl Marx called the only real socialist society of history. I already evoked this historical event through the writings of Blanqui (see the essay Processes of smoothing and striation of space...

I just re-watched La Jetée by French director Chris Marker and I am still fascinated by the uniqueness of this 29 minutes movie. Marker,  along with Peter Watkins (see previous articles 1 & 2), can be said to have invented a new type of Cinema that uses a documentary style in order to create fiction, the...